Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Egypt) in Jan 2023
Interview
Straight forward, they ask you about your experience and what your ambitions are, they ask about your qualifications and skills, they then present you a problem to solve in limited time and after that you get a 10min break, another interview is conducted by a different interviewer with the same questions and a different problem
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What Kinds of projects have you worked on and what situations have you encountered and they ways you resolved them
really liked the first rounds of interview but had a bad experience with the coding interviews on prem. First exercise was easy so i tried to make something perfect but the interviewer expected me to be faster, second exercise i was given some constraints that i took very seriously but the interviewer expected a response that only loosely followed them. It felt unfair to be rejected over this
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) maze exploration 2) basic structures 3) designing a distributed system
3 steps. Hr, code test and final interview. The final interview was quite long. But overall in the end, it was worth experiencing. I didn not get offer from them.
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